Top 95 Pub Quotes

I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don’t get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

I didnt even own my own set of darts until 2012 when my mate started a team in the pub and wed just play on a Friday night.

When Welwyn Garden City was planned, the workers homes were placed in the east, downwind from the factories in the middle, whilst the bosses got the larger westside homes in Handside. This sort of social engineering, including the absence of a pub, would not be acceptable today.

I am much more happy in a country pub with 10 blokes having a pint than going to a night club.

I don’t have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

My books are not really books; they’re endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

When I first started doing exhibitions, you’d have 20 people down the pub, if you were lucky.

I went from playing to like ten people in a pub to playing thousands of people and being in this music industry, you really have to get out of your comfort zone fast.

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

I have a strong work ethic, yet I’m incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you do can be called research. Sitting in the pub is research. Reading the newspaper can be research.

I don’t drink at home. I don’t go to the pub or clubs.

I love acting. It’s the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis – emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally – and at the end of the day say, ‘See you in the pub, guys.’

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they’re the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

We want to bring the kids, the parents, the grandparents and grandkids together, we want them to have a shared viewing experience. We want the kids to talk about it in the playground, dad to talk about it down the pub, grandma to talk about it while she’s out shopping.

Radio 2 feels like I’m still at the pub with all my friends but now my father-in-law has joined the table. But I love it. If I was a stick of rock I’d have BBC written through me.

One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there’s the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

In the days of ‘EastEnders,’ I couldn’t go into a pub or supermarket, as people would recognise me and follow me home.

I had Oliver Reed as a neighbor. He was always in the pub and despite his age, he always wanted to wrestle everyone.

It is very boring and lonely in Shirebrook. You know what we do after work? We go to the pub after work.

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It’s where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I’d do whatever was asked of me – and more.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

Going to a pub when you’re not drinking is pretty boring.

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We’d go to this British pub to watch the ‘Six Nations’ early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.

My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced English life. But the truth is they both came from tiny villages in Sri Lanka.

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

There’s no better feeling in the world than when I walk in a pub, or a nightclub or a bar or a supermarket, anywhere, and you see people out the corner of your eye and they’re going, ‘Hey, there’s Ricky Hatton. Isn’t he a good lad, coming for a pint with us in here?’ It makes you feel proud.

After doing kid’s television on CBBC and messing around with eight and nine year olds, there was a period of three years in the middle of that when I wasn’t doing anything. I was working as a receptionist and in a pub; I was a cleaner and all sorts of things. All life has its ups and downs.

You’d be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you’d be playing a club. You got into that habit: ‘If we don’t play, we don’t eat.’

James, that’s a bad situation. I’m not saying it’s not repairable, but it’s pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band… as far as I’m concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

I’d go into the pub and start crying even before I’d had my first drink.

Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.

The worst problem I’ve probably had was the gambling – you can do your money in the bookies a lot quicker than you can do it in the pub.

Before, if I’d had a stressful day, I’d go to meet my friends in the pub and have a moan. Now I go to yoga.

Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that’s the best place to solve all the world’s problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.

My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked – scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get themselves out of a rut.

I was a waitress at a local pub. I was really bad with money and it taught me the value of it as I was on minimum wage.

If you’re trying to portray that I take massive business decisions in pubs and bars, then that is total crap. It is not the norm, otherwise I’d have to live in a pub because I take business decisions all day, every day.

Our daughter’s name Arwynn comes from Arwen in ‘Lord of the Rings’ because my wife and I met for the first time in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis used to go to read out their stories to one another.

When I’m sat in the pub with my mates, they’ve got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out… My anecdotes are like, ‘I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn’t hear what she was saying…’

I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I’m a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people.

I was told that, when ‘Betrayal’ was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don’t need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

The first gig we ever played was at a pub in Sydney called the Annandale Hotel to approximately 12 people.

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it’s actually a pub.

I’m not pugnacious or argumentative. I’d probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback.

When you watch ‘Save Me,’ you want to be there. Even if you haven’t grown up on an estate like this, you want to go to that pub and meet these people.

Happy men are not the ones in the pub, laughing. Happy men are at home with their wives and family. There is no one happy in the pub.

Some friends think I’m dull now. But I think it’s great that I’m no longer trying to make everyone laugh in the pub.

I’d love to open a restaurant that changes every month. One month it would be a mom and bar spaghetti-and-meatball, Red Sox place, and the next it would be a British pub, and everyone gets in a fight.